The town of Monson will hold “Snowroller 2019,” one of the county’s few family-fun winter events, on Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, Feb 16.

Advance care planning isn’t just for those with life-limiting illnesses – but for all of us. Pine Tree Hospice is offering a free informative seminar at the Dover Foxcroft Congregational Church from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 16.

If only it were a lost art and we had left it there long ago. Its device and scheme is a plague upon our nation's soul. So it has followed us from distant shores, infectious and diseased, to raise its ugly bulbous head in a legislative eruption of taxation.

Gabrielle Heuttener and Susannah Heuttener of Monson, Tyler Libby of Parkman, Ingrid Halvorsen of Guilford, and Tyler Judd of Athens served as honorary pages in the Maine Senate on Jan. 31. They were visiting the Statehouse with the 4-H Youth Development Program and they met with Sen. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville.

Upcoming events around the region.

Dustin Simmons had plenty of individual motivation at Saturday’s Penobscot Valley Conference wrestling championship meet. Three previous trips to the championship finals had produced nothing but disappointment. And the clock and scoreboard weren’t working in the Foxcroft Academy senior’s favor late in his last bid for a conference title against Gabriel Stone of Dexter in the 160-pound final.

Undefeated Josh Harvey of Young’s MMA in Bangor won the New England Fights 37 main event at the Cross Insurance Center on Friday night, Feb. 1 before most of the sold-out crowd of 1,200 even realized it.

For the seventh time in as many meets Penquis Valley High School senior Cymeria Robshaw won the 55-meter dash during the final regular season Penobscot Valley Conference/Eastern Maine Indoor Track League competition at the University of Maine.

The soldiers who identify as members of the transgender community serve our country and protect our freedoms in the U.S. military. Patriot hero soldiers from the LGBTQ+ community have given their lives or have come home from many wars with arms or legs blown off.

The employees of Maine Highlands Federal Credit Union recently made a donation to the Aliza Jean Family Cancer Foundation. The organization was chosen as a recipient of the Credit Union’s Caring for Community fundraiser.